Paris, June 16, 2020
Atos SE Once-a-year Basic Meeting of shareholders was held these days guiding closed doorways and in electronic method because of to the sanitary constraints joined to the COVID-19 epidemic.
The shareholders accredited all the resolutions that were being submitted.
The Basic conference accredited the Enterprise and consolidated money statements for the money yr 2019, it staying recalled that the Board of Administrators had extremely determined not to post the distribution of a dividend to the Basic Meeting’s acceptance so as to take into account the situations relevant to the Covid-19 epidemic. In this context, the Main Govt Officer described on the Company’s activity to meet this obstacle, by virtue of its sense of intent, and on the Group’s resilience.
The Basic Meeting also accredited in unique the aspects building up the payment and the added benefits paid out in the course of or awarded for the money yr 2019 Bertrand MEUNIER, Chairman of the Board of Administrators and Elie GIRARD, for his successive mandates as Deputy Main Govt Officer and Main Govt Officer. The Basic Meeting accredited then the payment guidelines relevant for 2020 to the Administrators, the Chairman of the Board of Administrators and the Main Govt Officer.
Nicolas BAZIRE informed the Board of Administrators that he did not wish to ask for the renewal of his phrase of business office as Director. The Board of Administrators acknowledged this and as a result determined not to post to the shareholders’ vote the relevant resolution.
The Basic Meeting renewed the phrases of business office as Administrators of (i) Cedrik NEIKE for 3 decades and (ii) Valérie BERNIS and Colette NEUVILLE for two decades, as properly as the phrase of business office of Jean FLEMING as Director representing the worker shareholders for two decades. The phrase of business office of Grant Thornton as Statutory Auditor was also renewed for six decades.
To take into account the new legislative surroundings in drive, the Basic Meeting accredited all the resolutions aimed at amending the articles of affiliation.
Immediately after the Basic Meeting, the Board of Administrators modified the composition of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee as follows:
- Bertrand MEUNIER, Chairman
- Jean FLEMING
- Colette NEUVILLE.
The composition of the other committees of the Board of Administrators continues to be unchanged.
The in depth benefits of the votes of the Basic Meeting are accessible on Atos web-site (Investors portion – Once-a-year Basic Meeting).
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Atos SE has tested its self-created voting platform, “Atos Vote”©, applying blockchain know-how, accessible on Android and iOS smartphones, and made accessible to staff direct shareholders of Atos SE, who were being invited to cast their votes in advance of the Basic Meeting, applying this evidence of idea. Atos will carry out additional testing of this voting resource in partnership with vital gamers in the industry in the context of future events.
Further data about this voting software is accessible on a focused web page of Atos web-site.